The senator, who died Thursday night, was motivated and haunted by the 1978 assassinations of Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.
in 2008, but “if I could have undone the moment, even today, I would have undone it in a second. In a nanosecond.”
White resigned from his post earlier in November to focus more on his business, a decision he made during a three-week period where Feinstein had been on vacation and then recovering from an illness she got on the trip, she recalled to the Chronicle. "I knew I had to move, and I was trying to force my brain and my body to function together and move out of the chair, and I had gotten out of the chair and was approaching the door of my office when I saw Dan leave, and I said, 'Dan,' and he went right by, and the door closed. I then smelled the gunpowder," she said."I found Harvey on his stomach. I tried to get a pulse and put my finger through a bullet hole.
Harvey Milk, left, and George Moscone, during the signing of the city's gay rights bill in San Francisco, in April 1977.White was charged with their murders, but convicted of a lesser manslaughter charge after his lawyer used what became known as"He served just five years in prison and died by suicide in 1985.she was still haunted by the violence, and well aware that it contributed to her political success.
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